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I just started a template for topics related to the end of human civilization, humanity, the Earth, and the universe. It's still very much a rough draft right now, and isn't ready for any articles, but eventually it should be wroth something. Named Template:Doomsday for now. --Wasted Sapience 21:34, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I'm going to go ahead and add this to a couple of articles in order to get the word out. --Wasted Sapience 21:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

End of the world and Doomsday cover a lot of the same thing, but different terms. I might have called this template "End of the world" and linked to it as the top-level article.. but then I can see why Doomsday was chosen also. How we do we deal with Doomsday vs EOTW and are there any others like that? -- Stbalbach 00:25, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

If no-one minds, I will delete the astronomical links in the template. Doomsday, according to the article, is a possible ending to all human life, in an scientific or metaphysical way. The ultimate end of the universe doesn't seem part of it, in my humble opinion. --Soetermans (talk) 13:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

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I've fixed the request, assuming you want it to remain a template. --BDD (talk) 18:14, 24 April 2014 (UTC)

Default oppose. No rationale offered for move, template has a stable name. Template name doesn't always have to match the "header." SnowFire (talk) 20:40, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

Oppose Template names are often a memorable shorthand to use in {{inserttemplatename}} for editors, not meant to correspond exactly to the title displayed, which may may be formatted in a different way because of layout or other reasons. walkvictor falktalk 18:08, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

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Death
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Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death, other concerns include fear of death, necrophobia, anxiety, sorrow, grief, emotional pain, depression, sympathy, compassion, solitude, or saudade. The potential for an afterlife is of concern for some humans, the word death comes from Old English deað, which in turn comes from Proto-Germanic *dauthuz. This comes from the Proto-Indo-European stem *dheu- meaning the Process, act, when a person has died, it is also said they have passed away, passed on, expired, or are gone, among numerous other socially accepted, religiously specific, slang, and irreverent terms. Bereft of life, the person is then a corpse, cadaver, a body, a set of remains, and when all flesh has rotted away. The terms carrion and carcass can also be used, though more often connote the remains of non-human animals. As a polite reference to a person, it has become common practice to use the participle form of decease, as in the deceased. The ashes left after a cremation are sometimes referred to by the neologism cremains, senescence refers to a scenario when a living being is able to survive all calamities, but eventually dies due to causes relating to old age. Almost all animals who survive external hazards to their biological functioning eventually die from biological aging, some organisms experience negligible senescence, even exhibiting biological immortality. These include the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii, the hydra, and the planarian, unnatural causes of death include suicide and homicide. From all causes, roughly 150,000 people die around the world each day, physiological death is now seen as a process, more than an event, conditions once considered indicative of death are now reversible. Where in the process a dividing line is drawn between life and death depends on factors beyond the presence or absence of vital signs, in general, clinical death is neither necessary nor sufficient for a determination of legal death. A patient with working heart and lungs determined to be dead can be pronounced legally dead without clinical death occurring. As scientific knowledge and medicine advance, formulating a precise definition of death becomes more difficult. The concept of death is a key to understanding of the phenomenon. There are many approaches to the concept. For example, brain death, as practiced in medical science, One of the challenges in defining death is in distinguishing it from life. As a point in time, death would seem to refer to the moment at which life ends, determining when death has occurred requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death

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Futures studies
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Futures studies is the study of postulating possible, probable, and preferable futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. There is a debate as to whether this discipline is an art or science, in general, it can be considered as a branch of the social sciences and parallel to the field of history. History studies the past, futures studies considers the future, Futures studies seeks to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change. Part of the discipline thus seeks a systematic and pattern-based understanding of past and present, unlike the physical sciences where a narrower, more specified system is studied, futures studies concerns a much bigger and more complex world system. The methodology and knowledge are much less proven as compared to science or even social science like sociology, economics. Futures studies is a field, studying yesterdays and todays changes. It includes analyzing the sources, patterns, and causes of change and stability in an attempt to develop foresight, around the world the field is variously referred to as futures studies, strategic foresight, futuristics, futures thinking, futuring, and futurology. Futures studies and strategic foresight are the fields most commonly used terms in the English-speaking world. Foresight was the term and was first used in this sense by H. G. Wells in 1932. Futurology is a common in encyclopedias, though it is used almost exclusively by nonpractitioners today. Futurology is defined as the study of the future, the term was coined by German professor Ossip K. Flechtheim in the mid-1940s, who proposed it as a new branch of knowledge that would include a new science of probability. Three factors usually distinguish futures studies from the conducted by other disciplines. First, futures studies often examines not only possible but also probable, preferable, third, futures studies challenges and unpacks the assumptions behind dominant and contending views of the future. The future thus is not empty but fraught with hidden assumptions, for example, many people expect the collapse of the Earths ecosystem in the near future, while others believe the current ecosystem will survive indefinitely. A foresight approach would seek to analyze and highlight the assumptions underpinning such views and it is in this regard, that futures studies evolves from an academic exercise to a more traditional business-like practice, looking to better prepare organizations for the future. Futures studies does not generally focus on short term such as interest rates over the next business cycle. Most strategic planning, which develops operational plans for preferred futures with time horizons of one to three years, is not considered futures. Plans and strategies with longer time horizons that specifically attempt to anticipate future events are definitely part of the field